Photos of the Day - February 3, 2014

An Afghan security personnel stands guard in front of a school after an explosion hit the school yard in eastern Kabul, AfghanistaA woman runs for cover as heavy gunfire erupts in the Miskin district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Feb. 3, 2014. InPolice patrol along the boardwalk on the Black Sea accompanied by a stray dog outside the Olympic Park at the 2014 Winter OlympicsYachts are seen knocked off their stands at a damaged dock after an earthquake in Lixouri on the island of Kefalonia, western GrA construction worker smiles as he unloads rebar from a truck during a winter snowstorm, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in the Brooklyn borAnti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban collects donation from supporters during a march through Bangkok, Thailand, MondaA worker dangles from the Olympic cauldron as preparations take place for the 2014 Winter Olympics Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Sochi,An opposition activist stands near a wall covered in graffiti with the writing "Revolution" close to barricades in centA girl walks past a banner showing the Olympic rings on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, as preparations for thePlows clear runways as snow falls at Newark Liberty International Airport, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Newark, N.J. Air traffic is diIn this Saturday Feb. 1, 2014, photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authA park employee carries a shovel through Bryant Park on 42nd Street in the snow, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in New York. Another winterFrench forces push looters out, in the Miskin district in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Feb. 3, 2014. Fighting between A worker climbs past an Olympic logo at the ski jumping venue during preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 3, 20In this photo taken Sunday Feb. 2, 2014, people take photos and look at the flooding from the River Parrett on the Somerset Levels

An Afghan security personnel stands guard in front of a school after an explosion hit the school yard in eastern Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. The Afghan interior ministry confirmed that at least two were wounded when a hand grenade exploded near a religious school in Police District 12 in eastern Kabul city. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)A woman runs for cover as heavy gunfire erupts in the Miskin district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Feb. 3, 2014. In what a French soldier on the scene describes as the heaviest exchange of fire he'd seen since early December 2013, Muslim militias engaged Burundi troops who returned fire. A third source of firing remained unidentified. Fighting between Muslim Seleka militias and Christian anti-Balaka factions continues as French and African Union forces struggle to contain the bloodshed. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Police patrol along the boardwalk on the Black Sea accompanied by a stray dog outside the Olympic Park at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)Yachts are seen knocked off their stands at a damaged dock after an earthquake in Lixouri on the island of Kefalonia, western Greece on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude between 5.7 and 6.1 hit the western Greek island of Kefalonia before dawn Monday, sending scared residents into the streets just over a week after a similar quake damaged hundreds of buildings, reviving memories of a disaster in the 1950s. (AP Photo)A construction worker smiles as he unloads rebar from a truck during a winter snowstorm, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. After several days of mild weather, snow has returned to the Northeast. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban collects donation from supporters during a march through Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Thai protesters vowed Monday to stage larger rallies in central Bangkok and push ahead their efforts to nullify the results of elections that were expected to prolong a national political crisis. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)A worker dangles from the Olympic cauldron as preparations take place for the 2014 Winter Olympics Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)An opposition activist stands near a wall covered in graffiti with the writing "Revolution" close to barricades in central Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Ukraine's president will return Monday from a short sick leave that had sparked a guessing game as to whether he was taking himself out of action in preparation to step down or for a crackdown on widespread anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)A girl walks past a banner showing the Olympic rings on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, as preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics continue. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Plows clear runways as snow falls at Newark Liberty International Airport, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Newark, N.J. Air traffic is disrupted in Ohio, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast as another winter storm bears down on the eastern U.S., only a day after temperatures soared into the 50s. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)In this Saturday Feb. 1, 2014, photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels fire their anti-aircraft gun at Syrian forces airplanes in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian government helicopters and warplanes unleashed a wave of airstrikes on more than a dozen opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, in a ferocious attack that killed at least 36 people, including 17 children, activists said. The AMC logo has been inserted in top right corner and the initials AMC appear on weapon. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)A park employee carries a shovel through Bryant Park on 42nd Street in the snow, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in New York. Another winter storm bears down on the eastern U.S., only a day after temperatures soared into the 50s. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)French forces push looters out, in the Miskin district in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Feb. 3, 2014. Fighting between Muslim Seleka militias and Christian anti-Balaka factions continues as French and African Union forces struggle to contain the bloodshed. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A worker climbs past an Olympic logo at the ski jumping venue during preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)In this photo taken Sunday Feb. 2, 2014, people take photos and look at the flooding from the River Parrett on the Somerset Levels from Barrow Mump, Somerset, England, Here on the Somerset Levels _ a flat, marshy region of farmland dotted with villages and scored by rivers and ditches _ it's often wet. But not this wet. Thousands of acres of this corner of southwest England have been under water for weeks, some villages have been cut off for more than a month, and local people forced to take boats to get to school, work and shops are frustrated and angry. Some blame government budget cuts and environmental bureaucracy. Others point to climate change. Even plump, endangered water voles are the target of ire. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)